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CLANDESTINE OPERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intelligence operation so planned and executed as to insure concealment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("clandestine operation" is a kind of...):
intelligence; intelligence activity; intelligence operation (the operation of gathering information about an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clandestine operation"):
exfiltration operation (a clandestine rescue operation to bring a defector or refugee or an operative and family out of danger)